rs267607170

Variant summary

Our verdict is Pathogenic. The variant received 18 ACMG points: 18P and 0B. PM1PM2PM5PP3_StrongPP5_Very_Strong

The NM_000551.4(VHL):​c.491A>G​(p.Gln164Arg) variant causes a missense change involving the alteration of a conserved nucleotide. The variant was absent in control chromosomes in GnomAD project. In-silico tool predicts a pathogenic outcome for this variant. Variant has been reported in ClinVar as Pathogenic (★★). Another variant affecting the same amino acid position, but resulting in a different missense (i.e. Q164E) has been classified as Likely pathogenic.

Frequency

Genomes: not found (cov: 32)

Consequence

VHL
NM_000551.4 missense

Scores

9
6
4

Clinical Significance

Pathogenic criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts P:5

Conservation

PhyloP100: 7.26

Publications

12 publications found
Variant links:
Genes affected
VHL (HGNC:12687): (von Hippel-Lindau tumor suppressor) This gene encodes a component of a ubiquitination complex. The encoded protein is involved in the ubiquitination and degradation of hypoxia-inducible-factor (HIF), which is a transcription factor that plays a central role in the regulation of gene expression by oxygen. In addition to oxygen-related gene expression, this protein plays a role in many other cellular processes including cilia formation, cytokine signaling, regulation of senescence, and formation of the extracellular matrix. Variants of this gene are associated with von Hippel-Lindau syndrome, pheochromocytoma, erythrocytosis, renal cell carcinoma, and cerebellar hemangioblastoma. [provided by RefSeq, Jun 2022]
VHL Gene-Disease associations (from GenCC):
  • pheochromocytoma
    Inheritance: AD Classification: DEFINITIVE Submitted by: G2P
  • von Hippel-Lindau disease
    Inheritance: AD Classification: DEFINITIVE, STRONG, SUPPORTIVE Submitted by: ClinGen, Genomics England PanelApp, Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae), G2P, Orphanet
  • renal cell carcinoma
    Inheritance: AD Classification: STRONG Submitted by: Genomics England PanelApp
  • autosomal recessive secondary polycythemia not associated with VHL gene
    Inheritance: AR Classification: STRONG Submitted by: Ambry Genetics
  • Chuvash polycythemia
    Inheritance: AR Classification: STRONG, SUPPORTIVE Submitted by: Genomics England PanelApp, Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae), Orphanet
  • hereditary pheochromocytoma-paraganglioma
    Inheritance: AD Classification: SUPPORTIVE Submitted by: Orphanet

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ACMG classification

Classification was made for transcript

Our verdict: Pathogenic. The variant received 18 ACMG points.

PM1
In a hotspot region, there are 32 aminoacids with missense pathogenic changes in the window of +-8 aminoacids around while only 3 benign, 17 uncertain in NM_000551.4
PM2
Very rare variant in population databases, with high coverage;
PM5
Other missense variant is known to change same aminoacid residue: Variant chr3-10149813-C-G is described in ClinVar as Conflicting_classifications_of_pathogenicity. ClinVar VariationId is 625253.
PP3
MetaRNN computational evidence supports a deleterious effect, 0.962
PP5
Variant 3-10149814-A-G is Pathogenic according to our data. Variant chr3-10149814-A-G is described in ClinVar as Pathogenic. ClinVar VariationId is 2238.Status of the report is criteria_provided_multiple_submitters_no_conflicts, 2 stars.

Transcripts

RefSeq

Gene Transcript HGVSc HGVSp Effect Exon rank MANE Protein UniProt
VHLNM_000551.4 linkc.491A>G p.Gln164Arg missense_variant Exon 3 of 3 ENST00000256474.3 NP_000542.1 P40337-1A0A024R2F2
VHLNM_198156.3 linkc.368A>G p.Gln123Arg missense_variant Exon 2 of 2 NP_937799.1 P40337-2A0A0S2Z4K1
VHLNR_176335.1 linkn.820A>G non_coding_transcript_exon_variant Exon 4 of 4
VHLNM_001354723.2 linkc.*45A>G 3_prime_UTR_variant Exon 3 of 3 NP_001341652.1

Ensembl

Gene Transcript HGVSc HGVSp Effect Exon rank TSL MANE Protein Appris UniProt
VHLENST00000256474.3 linkc.491A>G p.Gln164Arg missense_variant Exon 3 of 3 1 NM_000551.4 ENSP00000256474.3 P40337-1

Frequencies

GnomAD3 genomes
Cov.:
32
GnomAD4 exome
Cov.:
30
GnomAD4 genome
Cov.:
32
Alfa
AF:
0.0000258
Hom.:
0

ClinVar

Significance: Pathogenic
Submissions summary: Pathogenic:5
Revision: criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts
LINK: link

Submissions by phenotype

Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome Pathogenic:3
Jul 01, 2010
OMIM
Significance:Pathogenic
Review Status:no assertion criteria provided
Collection Method:literature only

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Aug 01, 2018
Genomic Diagnostic Laboratory, Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Significance:Pathogenic
Review Status:criteria provided, single submitter
Collection Method:clinical testing

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Jan 19, 2021
Women's Health and Genetics/Laboratory Corporation of America, LabCorp
Significance:Pathogenic
Review Status:criteria provided, single submitter
Collection Method:clinical testing

Variant summary: VHL c.491A>G (p.Gln164Arg) results in a conservative amino acid change located in the alpha domain, which is known to interact with Elongin C (IPR024048). Three of five in-silico tools predict a damaging effect of the variant on protein function. The variant was absent in 251444 control chromosomes (gnomAD). c.491A>G has been reported in the literature in multiple patients/families affected with Von Hippel-Lindau Syndrome (VHL) or with VHL-related tumors, including at least one individual with de novo occurrence (e.g. Chen_1995, Zbar_1996, Webster_1999, Mattocks_2000, Ong_2007, Sovinz_2010, de Cubas_2013, Neumann_2019). These data indicate that the variant is very likely to be associated with disease. Publications also reported experimental evidence evaluating an impact on protein function, and demonstrated that while this variant didn't affect elongin B and C binding in an in vitro peptide-binding assay, the Q164R mutant full-length protein had reduced binding ability to elongin B and Cul2 in transiently transfected renal carcinoma cells (Ohh_1999). In addition, another study also reported that though the variant protein had retained elongin C binding, the variant significantly reduced the intracellular stability of VHL protein (Park_2015). Three other clinical diagnostic laboratories have submitted clinical-significance assessments for this variant to ClinVar after 2014 without evidence for independent evaluation, and all of them classified the variant as pathogenic. Based on the evidence outlined above, the variant was classified as pathogenic. -

Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome;C1837915:Chuvash polycythemia Pathogenic:1
Mar 26, 2023
Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae), Labcorp
Significance:Pathogenic
Review Status:criteria provided, single submitter
Collection Method:clinical testing

This variant is not present in population databases (gnomAD no frequency). This missense change has been observed in individual(s) with von Hippel-Lindau disease (PMID: 7728151, 17024664, 20583150). In at least one individual the variant was observed to be de novo. ClinVar contains an entry for this variant (Variation ID: 2238). Advanced modeling of protein sequence and biophysical properties (such as structural, functional, and spatial information, amino acid conservation, physicochemical variation, residue mobility, and thermodynamic stability) performed at Invitae indicates that this missense variant is expected to disrupt VHL protein function. This variant disrupts the p.Gln164 amino acid residue in VHL. Other variant(s) that disrupt this residue have been determined to be pathogenic (PMID: 12807974, 19215943, 22517557, 24102379; Invitae). This suggests that this residue is clinically significant, and that variants that disrupt this residue are likely to be disease-causing. For these reasons, this variant has been classified as Pathogenic. This sequence change replaces glutamine, which is neutral and polar, with arginine, which is basic and polar, at codon 164 of the VHL protein (p.Gln164Arg). -

Hereditary cancer-predisposing syndrome Pathogenic:1
Dec 02, 2024
Ambry Genetics
Significance:Pathogenic
Review Status:criteria provided, single submitter
Collection Method:clinical testing

The p.Q164R (also known as c.491A>G) pathogenic mutation, located in coding exon 3 of the VHL gene, results from an A to G substitution at nucleotide position 491. The glutamine at codon 164 is replaced by arginine, an amino acid with highly similar properties. This variant has been reported in individuals with clinical diagnoses of von Hippel-Lindau syndrome (VHL), or VHL related tumors (Chen F et al. Hum. Mutat. 1995;5:66-75; Webster AR et al. Arch. Ophthalmol. 1999 Mar;117:371-8; Ong KR et al. Hum. Mutat. 2007 Feb;28:143-9; Sovinz P et al. Am. J. Med. Genet. A. 2010 Jul;152A:1752-5; de Cubas AA et al. Endocr. Relat. Cancer. 2013 Aug;20:477-93; Fallon SC et al. J. Pediatr. Surg. 2013 Jun;48:1422-5; Krauss T et al. Endocr. Relat. Cancer. 2018 Sep;25:783-793). In one case, this variant was identified in a 2-year-old child with pheochromocytoma. It was found to be de novo in the patient's father, who also had pheochromocytoma, retinal angioma, and an adrenal adenoma (Sovinz P et al. Am. J. Med. Genet. A. 2010 Jul;152A:1752-5). In vitro functional studies do not show specific impaired functions, including elongin C binding, however, one study showed a shorter protein half-life than wild type leading the authors to speculate that the protein may be unstable (Ohh M et al. J. Clin. Invest. 1999 Dec;104:1583-91; Maynard MA et al. J. Biol. Chem. 2003 Mar;278:11032-40; Park KS et al. BMC Cancer. 2015 Oct;15:800). Another alteration at the same codon, p.Q164H (c.492G>C) , has been reported in a family diagnosed with PGLs and PCCs (Bauters C et al. J. Med. Genet. 2003 Jun;40:e75), and internal structural analysis indicated the alteration disrupts the fold of the elongin binding domain of VHL (Ambry internal data; Van Molle I et al. Chem. Biol. 2012 Oct;19:1300-12). This variant is considered to be rare based on population cohorts in the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD). Based on the supporting evidence, this alteration is interpreted as a disease-causing mutation. -

Computational scores

Source: dbNSFP v4.3

Name
Calibrated prediction
Score
Prediction
AlphaMissense
Pathogenic
0.95
BayesDel_addAF
Pathogenic
0.52
D
BayesDel_noAF
Pathogenic
0.51
CADD
Uncertain
24
DANN
Uncertain
1.0
DEOGEN2
Pathogenic
0.82
D;.
Eigen
Uncertain
0.50
Eigen_PC
Uncertain
0.51
FATHMM_MKL
Uncertain
0.93
D
LIST_S2
Benign
0.84
T;T
M_CAP
Pathogenic
0.49
D
MetaRNN
Pathogenic
0.96
D;D
MetaSVM
Pathogenic
1.1
D
MutationAssessor
Benign
1.6
L;.
PhyloP100
7.3
PrimateAI
Uncertain
0.74
T
PROVEAN
Uncertain
-2.4
N;N
REVEL
Pathogenic
0.83
Sift
Pathogenic
0.0
.;D
Sift4G
Benign
0.16
T;D
Polyphen
1.0
D;D
Vest4
0.56
MutPred
0.93
Gain of MoRF binding (P = 0.0098);.;
MVP
1.0
MPC
1.1
ClinPred
0.97
D
GERP RS
4.9
Varity_R
0.95
gMVP
0.90
Mutation Taster
=9/91
disease causing (ClinVar)

Splicing

Name
Calibrated prediction
Score
Prediction
SpliceAI score (max)
0.0
Details are displayed if max score is > 0.2

Find out detailed SpliceAI scores and Pangolin per-transcript scores at spliceailookup.broadinstitute.org

Publications

Other links and lift over

dbSNP: rs267607170; hg19: chr3-10191498; API